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Talk, fed to the media, of "mass resignations" by junior shadow ministers if Jeremy Corbyn activates Labour Party conference policy and goes for a new public vote on Brexit (Guardian, 18 January 2019) - this is treachery similar to June 2016, only worse.

15 January 2019 is the 100th anniversary of the murder of the Polish¬German revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, killed by a right-wing militia operating under the Social¬Democratic government which was heading off the German workers’ revolution.

According to the Financial Times (18 January), "Britain has failed to finalise most trade deals needed to replace the EU’s 40 existing agreements with leading global economies and will not be close to doing so... on March 29..."

Merseyrail is one of the Train Operating Companies where workers have been resisting the imposition of Driver Only Operation, which involves the abolition of the safety¬critical role of the guard. Interview with driver and union activist.

Russian foreign policy, and therefore the Communist Party of Great Britain, opposed moves to European bourgeois integration from the 1940s onwards, but until the late 1960s most of the Trotskyist left took an internationalist position on the EEC.

The cries of “McCarthyism” from Trump and his associates are a travesty and a stain on the memory of those left-wing Americans who suffered persecution for their political beliefs or sexual orientation. That many such victims held the mistaken belief that Stalin’s USSR was somehow advancing the interests of the working class only serves to underline their tragedy. Picture: Trump with McCarthyite lawyer, Roy Cohn.